Inprimis I doe give unto Forty poore people of the parish of Ashe one shilling apeece to bee paid unto them by my Executrixes hereafter
named
Item I give unto Elizabeth my Loving Wife one hundred pounds worth of Household
stuffe and Implements of Houshold now being within my dwelling house at Ashe aforesaid
Item I give unto my sonne Benjamine Solley twenty pounds to bee paid unto him by my Executrixes within Six Months after my decease
The Rest of all my goods and Chattells not before given I doe give and bequeath unto my said sonne Benjamine Solley and unto my two other Children Edward Solley and Martha Solley equally to be devided betwixt them, my debts legacies and Funerall expences well and truely satisfied and paid
And of this my last will and Testament I doe constitute and ordaine Elizabeth my Loving Wife and my
daughter Martha Solley my full and whole Executrixes
And I nominate and intreate my Loving sonne Henry Foche of the Citty of Canterbury gentl. to be an Overseer of this my Will
In Witness whereof I the said Stephen Solley to this my prsnt [present] Last Will and Testament have
Sette my hand and Seale this Eight and twentieth day of May 1661.
Stephen Solley
Sealed Subscribed published and declared by the above named Stephen Solley to bee his last will and Testament in the prsence of
John Foche - The marke of Ann Vincent
Probatum fuit: [Latin] 24th May 1662.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 26th October 2020
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